Jul 19, 2008 6:24 pm US/Pacific
Off-Duty Officer Stabbed Outside San Pedro Bar
SAN PEDRO, Calif.
An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was critically stabbed outside a San Pedro bar today, and two men were arrested but additional suspects were still at large, a police lieutenant said.
The violence at The Crimsin, 345 W. Sixth St., occurred about midnight in front of the bar, Los Angeles police Lt. Mark Tappan of the Harbor Station told a Newsreel camera crew.
Several people attacked the officer and, just as the fight was breaking up, someone lunged at the officer with a knife, Tappan said.
The officer was taken to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center with internal injuries and was said to have stable vital signs, the lieutenant said. Police would not say who he was or where he worked.
Two suspects were taken into custody following the attack, Tappan said, but additional suspects were still at large.
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